Hey folks,

Let me try something a bit different this week. I try to avoid just giving you feel-good content for the sake of it. With that said, I want to quote something Leah said a while back: Something ugly is happening around this country right now, but something beautiful is happening too.

I want to tell you about the beautiful thing.

The pro-democracy movement is growing at an historic pace. Since the election, the number of new local Indivisible groups has more than doubled. New groups are being founded every single day. We’re now working with around 2,500 active local Indivisible groups, spread across every state and almost every congressional district (all but AL-6, FL-12, TX-20, TX-34, TX-5; register your group here)!

The number of Indivisible members on our national email list has more than quadrupled during the same period. And engagement -- people actually doing stuff virtually and in the real world -- across just about every metric is through the roof.

What we’re seeing nationally lines up with what Leah and I are hearing from local Indivisible groups themselves. Over the weekend, we each joined local leaders for statewide Indivisible convenings -- Leah in Maryland and me in Hawaii.

I’m not going to lie: the Hawaii convening was awesome, and I was given more leis than I could count by group leaders around the state! But don’t sleep on Baltimore -- Leah came out beaming with reports of the energy, organizing, and strategic seriousness of the groups on the ground in Maryland.

Across the country, we’re hearing Indivisible groups wrestle with the same things:

1. How can we push our state leaders to go on offense against this overreaching administration?
2. How can we replace some of our “roll over and play dead” elected Democrats with real fighters?
3. How do we absorb and effectively put to work all these new people flooding into our meetings?

The PoliSci experts and historians of authoritarianism advise us that the only real solution to the ugliness of authoritarian overreach is broad-based, ideologically diverse, geographically dispersed, organized peaceful protest.

Well, we’ve organized two of the largest protests in American history in the last three months with Hands Off and No Kings Day. And there’s much more to come. At a time we see ugliness just about everywhere we turn -- Paramount capitulating; Columbia caving; congressional Republicans cowering; Trump being Trump -- this continuous expansion of organized people power is a beautiful thing.

I don’t spend a ton of time in these newsletters focused on that reassuring aspect of our reality because at Indivisible we believe hope is best delivered through steely-eyed analysis of what’s wrong and what we can do to fix it.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t take a beat to share a laugh at a giant billboard we put up outside the office of the pathetic, cowardly Speaker of the House, or take some inspiration from our fellow organizers who are building plans and developing the new leaders to turn the Democratic Party into a fighting force for democracy.

The billboard we just put up near Speaker Johnson's office in Louisiana

And I know we’re a practical bunch. So after we share that pick-me-up news, most of us quickly get to: “OK, great, but what do we actually do now?”

For that, I hope you’ll sign up for round two of One Million Rising training on strategic non-compliance this Wednesday, join me and Leah for our weekly “What’s the Plan?” call on Thursday, and read on for the rest of this week’s to-dos.

In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

Your weekly to-dos

1. Sign up for the One Million Rising call this Wednesday, July 30, to learn strategic non-cooperation strategies. It’s falling on us to lead the fight against fascism and force vital institutions off the sidelines. In this week’s call, you’ll be trained to lead active non-cooperation in your community and pass those skills on to others.
2. Call your GOP representative to demand the release of the Epstein files. Most House members are home for August recess after Republicans prematurely fled DC to avoid voting on the Epstein files. But we’re keeping the pressure on and demanding a vote as soon as they return.
3. Get your Member of Congress on the record about the Epstein Files in person. With many lawmakers home for most of August, you might have a chance to pressure them in person at a town hall, office visit, or other public event. Use our toolkit for tips and top questions to ask.
4. Use our new social tool, TRUTH & SHARE, to expand your reach and win over new allies online. Progressives often find ourselves messaging to people who already agree with us, but this moment requires us to activate folks in the middle or who simply don’t follow politics! TRUTH & SHARE features shareable links/messages specifically designed to do just that.
5. Join our “What’s the Plan?” call on Thursday to hear Leah and Ezra answer your questions. Every Thursday at 3pm ET (12pm PT), our co-founders jump online to break down the news of the week and answer your questions directly! Be part of a free-flowing, interactive chat about what’s next in our fight for democracy.

Ezra talks Epstein files with Jen Psaki

The Epstein cover-up is one of the biggest breakthrough moments we’ve seen so far in the second Trump Administration; even folks who don’t typically pay attention to politics are following this story and are outraged by Trump-world’s lies and corruption.

Ezra joined Jen Psaki to talk about what we’re doing to further expose the Epstein cover-up and foster that breakthrough -- and how we’re welcoming new people into our movement.

Click to watch a clip from Ezra’s interview.

Indivisibles are running billboards, churning out digital content, talking to anyone who’ll listen, and organizing on the ground to expose the Epstein cover-up, hold Republicans in Congress accountable, and fight for justice and transparency.

If you’re able, please consider a donation to expand our ads and outreach to spotlight Trump/GOP corruption, drive a wedge in the MAGA movement, and hold Epstein’s accomplices -- however powerful they may be -- to account.

IndivisiWIN of the week

Dozens of South Florida Indivisibles joined the Florida Immigrant Coalition to protest outside Alligator Alcatraz last Tuesday, demanding health screenings and humane treatment of prisoners while calling attention to the camp’s brutal conditions.

Protestors held a press conference to outline specific demands and called for the camp to be immediately closed down until migrants’ safety, dignity, and legal rights are protected. You can read coverage from WUSF/NPR here.

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